Evolution
Chapter 4
Evolution
The three trainers ventured towards Pewter city all thinking of the fairest way to choose who battles Brock the Pewter city gym leader. "Have you guys come with any ideas on how to fairly choose who versus Brock first yet?" Nathan asked, both Yuudai and Verde looked at Nathan and shuck their heads in response. "Oh well, just keep thinking until we have an idea" Nathan said.
"Right. But first... Weedle go!" Yuudai tossed a Pokéball in the air and a Weedle emerged and landed on the ground. It looked up at its trainer wondering what was going on. "Go ahead. Send out Caterpie." Yuudai said looking at Verde.
"Time to Train, Rorschach!" Shouted Verde whilst throwing Rorschach's Pokéball. Rorschach now bursting from its Pokéball and landing on the ground looking scared at its trainer. "It's a good idea to train your lower levelled Pokémon along the way though" Nathan said as he moved to the side getting ready to watch the battle that was about to begin.
"String shot!" Yuudai called out, Weedle then started spraying a sticky thread onto Caterpie. "Weedle poison sting!" Yuudai shouted. Weedle did as its trainer obeyed in succession but Rorschach rolled out the way as Verde called to Caterpie ordering it to dodge, Caterpie's movement caused the thread to break. "That worm sure is interesting... Don't let it escape, use bug bite!" Yuudai called out, Weedle wiggled over to Rorschach quickly and was readied itself to bite into Rorschach, Nathan stood on the side-lines cheering for both Verde and Yuudai as they battled it out.
"Rorschach Dodge!", Yelled Verde. Rorschach now rolled on its side and moved out of the trajectory of Weedle's attack. "Being passive gets you nowhere. Poison sting!" shouted Yuudai, the Weedle obeying then fired a poison needle aiming directly between the Caterpie's eyes.
"Come on Verde, you can't win without attacking" shouted Nathan as Yuudai pressed his attack further. "Oh I know." Verde muttered. "Now jump over it and use String Shot!" Verde shouted. And so Rorschach thrust itself into the air by bashing its tail onto the ground and jumped over the poison needle and Weedle at the same time. Caterpie then fired a string shot at Weedle that fully wrapped it in webbing.
The Weedle struggled and squirmed trying to escape from the webbing. The spike on Weedle's tail managed to break through the thread but nothing else did. "String shot above!" The Weedle fired a strong shot above using the momentum to swing itself into the Rorschach, taking the worm down to the ground. "Poison sting!" Weedle did as its master commanded firing a poison needle at close range at the pinned Pokémon. The poison sting struck Rorschach damaging and poisoning it in the process causing massive damage. "Return!" Verde called, returning Rorschach to its Pokéball. "There's no point in fainting the Pokémon when we can't heal them until pewter city". Verde said.
After Rorschach was called back the Weedle began glowing. It fired string in the air which fell back down on it. Eventually the thread hardened becoming a Kakuna. Yuudai's Pokédex began beeping. Yuudai pulled his Pokédex out of his pocket, the Pokédex spoke. "Registration complete. Kakuna, the cocoon Pokémon. Able to move only slightly. When endangered, it may stick out its stinger and poison its enemy." Yuudai returned the Pokémon not seeming completely satisfied. "Great, this thing probably won't even be able to battle meaning I just have Pikachu and Squirtle..." Yuudai placed the Pokédex and ball back in his bag. "You want to try and evolve Caterpie before we challenge Brock?" Yuudai said looking over towards Verde waiting for a response.
"Great fight guys and Yuudai congratulations on the evolution" Nathan said while smiling, "here use this" Nathan said giving his potion to Verde. "I've not needed to use mine and Rorschach needs healing if you're going to train and evolve him before we battle Brock".
"We can't really say how far we still have to go right now, and we've not travelled much. Plus I've got a few berries I can give him so thank you, but you keep it." Verde responded pushing the potion in Nathan's hand back towards him. "Okay then but the offer is there if you need the potion" Nathan said placing the potion back in his bag, Verde now let his injured Pokémon out of his Pokéball and fed him a Pecha Berry saying, "Here this should help with the poison." Verde's Caterpie looked happy as it ate the berry lifting the poison from him. "Shall we continue on to towards pewter city then guy's!" Nathan said looking over at Verde and Yuudai, "I mean we've barely travelled through the forest; we may end up having to camp out tonight" Nathan said waiting for a reply.
"Camping out? Did we even bring anything to sleep in?" Yuudai asked Nathan. " Its probably best we just get moving, we'll heal up and get back to training that worm" Yuudai continued to say while glancing at Verde. "I didn't bring any camping gear, all I brought was a couple of small blankets for if I got cold" Nathan replied, "what about you Verde?". "Well I've brought a sleeping bag because I've heard that viridian forest is pretty large" said Verde looking up from checking his bag.
"Well if we have to camp out, at least we can get a fire going with Charmander's ember, we'd just need firewood" Nathan pointed out. Yuudai looked at all the trees that surrounded him and said sarcastically " that won't be an issue will it now" his voice's tone turned serious, "But who knows what Pokémon we may find lurking out there, even with three of us there's no telling what could happen". The three boys looked at each other in silence until Nathan optimistically said, "Isn't that what a Pokémon journey is all about, the danger, the mystery, facing the unknown with nothing but you, your friends and your Pokémon beside you". Nathan's words started to lift both Verde's and Yuudai's spirits, "You know he's right, if we ever want to become stronger and better trainers then we can't just give up as soon as something goes against us. Plus completely different species of Pokémon appear at night compared to daytime so it's sometimes worth camping out" Verde said looking up to his friends confidently.
"That's exactly what I was thinking, I really want to find a Gastly and I hear they only appear at night to play tricks on unsuspecting travellers" Nathan said turning to Verde to find out if he was correct, Verde nodded to confirm the rumours Nathan had heard. Nathan then turned to face both of his friends " Is it okay if we camp out so that I can try to find a gastly and so we can get some rest so refreshed and ready to keep hiking through this forest and make it to pewter city?" Nathan asked waiting for the response of both Verde and Yuudai. Verde nodded in agreement, Nathan then turned to Yuudai waiting for his answer, "Fine… then I guess we should set up camp for the night" Yuudai responded.
As the sun started to set on the Kanto region, the trio sat around a make-shift campsite that they set up with a pile of twigs and foliage surrounded with a ring of pebbles in the centre of camp waiting to be lit and their sleeping bag and blankets spread out for then to sleep on and a knocked over tree used for seating. Nathan threw one of his Pokéballs up into the air, Charmander appeared and jumped into Nathan's arms and preceded to cuddle his trainer. "Hey there Charmander" Nathan said reciprocating the same affection that Charmander had shown, " Can you use ember on that pile of twigs and light our fire?" Nathan asked, Charmander jumped into the air slowly allowing flames to gather in its mouth, as the ember was forming Charmander locked onto its target and got ready to launch the attack. As Charmander began to fall from the air he launched the ember attack directly hitting the twigs and foliage in the centre of camp, lighting the fire while slowly falling back into Nathan's arms. Nathan and the others praised Charmander for lighting the campfire and Nathan placed Charmander next to him on the fallen tree they were sitting on. "gggrrrr" went the trio's stomachs simultaneously, "My mother packed me some sandwiches for the road. I didn't think that I'd need them as I thought I'd be in pewter city by now, guess she knows more than I thought…" Yuudai said offering a sandwich to each of his friends. "Thank you!" both Verde and Nathan exclaimed as they took a sandwich each and took a bite, Nathan tore a piece off and gave it to Charmander.
"So when we get to pewter city, we'll stock up on supplies, medicine and Pokéballs" Verde said before being interrupted by Yuudai shouting, "Then we go to the gym, kick Brock's ass and climb one more step up the ladder" Yuudai then took another bite from his sandwich. "Who said that you'd be able to beat Brock " Nathan said while laughing and tapping Yuudai's back , "Hell you couldn't beat me when you had the type advantage so how are going to beat a gym leader with the type advantage?" Nathan asked still laughing, both Verde and Yuudai started laughing too. As time passed the trio finished eating their sandwiches, took off their Pokémon belts and their rucksacks and prepared to go to bed, "Regardless of what you say Nathan, I'm going to sleep so that I'm in top shape to face Brock" Yuudai said, "Good night guys"
"Good night Yuudai" said Nathan.